Adopt Quote by DaShanne Stokes

“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not…

— Kathleen Silber

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make…

— Madonna Ciccone

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same…

— Ann McLane Kuster

“We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails its children, there will be no one else to learn from.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.”

— DaShanne Stokes

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

— Dennis Cardoza

I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they…

— Susan B. Anthony

“If we are committed to fighting against abortion, we should be just as passionately fighting for adoption and orphan care to place vulnerable children…

— Johnny Carr

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

— George W. Bush

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

— Jen Hatmaker